Download or read book Ellie Jumps a Mile written by Andrew Newman and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our beloved Ellie returns on a new adventure. A big scary one.This time she is not trying to tiptoe, or forgetting to love herself. Instead, Ellie gets a fright for the first time in her life and feels what it is like to be scared. Thankfully her friends, Cheetah, Monkey, and Snail help her shake off fear and get calm again.
Download or read book 1 Mile to You written by Jeremy Jackson and published by Picador. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sweet Hereafter meets Chariots of Fire in 1 Mile to You, the touching first novel from Jeremy Jackson about tragedy and healing--now a major motion picture! "Refreshing...Reminds us that whether we run, play football, sing or write, we need to find the joy in what we do."—Chicago Sun-Times In eighth grade Kevin Schuler is a popular kid with a decent, if not stellar, record on the track. Yet after fate takes him off a bus that crashes and kills his fellow students, including his girlfriend, Kevin inexplicably becomes a track phenomenon. Separated from his memory and distanced from his own life, he effortlessly smashes records and gains national attention, until he finds that he can no more remain apart from himself than he can from the ground beneath his feet. Originally published as Life at These Speeds.
Download or read book The Jump written by Doug Johnstone and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling to come to terms with the suicide of her teenage son, Ellie lives in the shadows of the Forth Road Bridge, lingering on its footpaths and swimming in the waters below. One day she talks down another suicidal teenager, Sam, and sees for herself a shot at redemption, the chance to atone for her son's death. But even with the best intentions, she can't foresee the situation she's falling headlong into - a troubled family, with some very dark secrets of their own. From #1 bestselling author of Gone Again, The Jump is a hugely moving contemporary thriller, and a stunning portrait of an unlikely heroine.
Download or read book Variation Seven written by Mike Manolakes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are twelve timebands in the universe. Each timeband is a cybernetic device that gives the wearer the ability to command time. With a timeband, you can travel to the past or the future, speed time up, slow it down, or cause time to stop entirely. You have the ability to change history and create worlds that never were, both awe-inspiring and frightening. You can see the bleak destiny humanity is heading toward, or steer it toward a bright, glorious future. Ruthie McDonald was working in a Chicago diner on the day the bomb exploded. She had no idea what would happen when she took the timeband off the arm of the dead man and fastened it to her own arm. But that moment changed her life forever. Her world vanished, and a darker, scarier one took its place. For better or worse, she was now a time traveler, a member of a secret elite team responsible for the safety of the entire timeline of the world's history.
Download or read book Just Me Ellie written by Ellie Bobson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just Me, Ellie is an autobiography of Ellie Bobson a small town innocent who experienced life to the fullest but also to the most extreme. She is a person who has carried these events with her every day and had to write about it to heal. Walk with her as her life unfolds from finding true love to losing it all as she explores the seedy drug culture of the 1970’s.
Download or read book Ellie s New Puppy written by Patricia Arnold and published by Marquette Press. This book was released on 2012-04-21 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellie is about to get a surprise birthday present she didn't expect - a bulldog puppy. She gets to choose the puppy that she wants, and she seems to know right away that Daisy is the one for her. She learns that having a puppy is a big responsibility and that taking care of Daisy is more work than she thought. Somehow Daisy's antics have everyone loving her despite the mischief she makes. A great little story about a child's first experiences with a puppy. Encourages kids to understand that a puppy requires care and teaches them that they get a great friend and companion in return.
Download or read book Princess Ellie s Perfect Plan written by Diana Kimpton and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princess Ellie is pony-mad! She loves riding her five beautiful ponies with her best friend, Kate. Then Kate’s parents make a big announcement and Ellie is faced with losing her best friend. Ellie is determined to change everyone's mind... until things go terribly wrong. Will time run out before she can come up with the perfect plan?
Download or read book Strange Times written by Mike Manolakes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange Times is the sequel to Variation Seven, the book that began The Traveler Series. Travelers are the men and women who possess timebands -- cybernetic devices that allow the wearer to travel in time and change history. There are only twelve timebands and twelve Travelers, and those individuals have divided themselves into two rival factions, each with a different view of what the destiny of mankind should be. One group is attempting to steer humanity toward a bright future where it colonizes the stars, and the other is determined to work toward the extinction of the human race before it can infest the galaxy like spreading plague. Ruthie Terwilliger is now happily married to her teammate Miles, but on a battlefield in Pennsylvania, Miles is shot and seriously wounded. Ruthie must find help to save her husband's life, and help comes from a most unexpected source -- a mysterious woman in white, someone who can apparently travel in time without the use of a timeband.
Download or read book How Diablo Became Spirit written by Andrew Newman and published by Conscious Stories. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a true story, this wonderful bedtime tale for kids ages 3 through 8 tells of the difficult journey of Spirit the black leopard, told from his own point of view. Anna Breytenbach, an animal communicator helps Spirit to change his life, which also changes the life of those who care for him. Spirit's amazing story has been viewed over 10 million times on YouTube. Beautifully illustrated, this book, which is part of the Conscious Bedtime Story Club collection, is a sure-fire winner for parents seeking conscious parenting tools. This book will help children recognize and appreciate all life forms, including animals, as the sentient beings that they are. How Diablo Became Spirit ends with Spirit's Secret Steps for communicating with animals.
Download or read book Breakers The Complete Series written by Edward W. Robertson and published by Edward W. Robertson. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 2305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the BREAKERS series, humanity faces not one apocalypse, but two: first a lethal pandemic, then a war against those who made the virus. This set includes the entire finished series of eight books and one novella. Over 3000 pages long, the BREAKERS series is a relentless ride from one of the hottest new names in fantasy and science fiction.
Download or read book Fishing the Jumps written by Lamar Herrin and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Romancing Spain, a novel about two fishing buddies and about home, family, and the stories we tell to keep the illusion alive. In his latest novel, award-winning writer Lamar Herrin highlights the art of storytelling and the value of friendship with a lush, outdoor landscape serving as a backdrop. Set over the course of a weekend spent fishing on an Adirondack lake, two middle-aged friends—Jim McManus and Walter Kidman—sip Jim Beam on the rocks and share stories of memory and camaraderie as the past and present meld to reveal that what happens in the past rarely stays there. Herrin explores the kaleidoscopic effect of memory while examining the rise and fall of life in the South. Presented is a story about a displaced southerner who tells the account of a family whose fortune was made in the post-World War II apparel industry, but it is the extended family that claims the narrator’s attention and sympathy, the grandparents, the aunts and uncles and cousins, and the stories told and retold about those family members until they reach the status of myth. It is a novel of two lakes—the small glacial one where Jim and Walter fish and exchange stories, and the southern one, created when a dam was built and numerous mountain settlements were flooded. It is a novel chronicling the aftermath of World War II, who won what, and when the time comes, who stands to lose. Lyrical and poetic yet playful and entertaining, Fishing the Jumps is more than just fishing tales. It is a seamless and haunting novel that is ultimately a story of the deep and necessary relationship between two men and the binding and nourishing effect of family—not only of an extended family, but of a whole community, and in fact, a whole region. Praise for Fishing the Jumps “Deliberate and gorgeous, with a mastery of description and a searing command of American culture. Fishing the Jumps is quiet, thoughtfully told, but with a thrashing undercurrent . . . . What seems almost a low-key dialogue on a placid lake is actually a turbulent family history that refuses to sink to the bottom of memory. This makes an elegant structure for a fish story that plumbs the nature of storytelling itself. It is a thrilling, intense novel to read. I was hooked.” —Bobbie Ann Mason, author of Patchwork and The Girl in the Blue Beret “Herrin’s writing is vivid, lyrical, and intense. But the glory of this novel is Herrin’s gift for recreating a particular time and place, the decades after WWII, the exuberance of summers by the mountain lake, the brilliance of Little Howie Whalen building a textile empire. These characters, and this time, come alive in a way that haunts the reader.” —Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek “Lamar Herrin may be the best writer of whom you have never heard . . . there’s no denying that Fishing the Jumps is a work of genius . . . Herrin’s narrative style is seamless, his emotional intelligence expert. . . . [A] bildungsroman, a mystery, and a prose poem, too, in its lush, layered honesty, verbal ingenuity, and elegant humanity.” —Linda Elisabeth LaPinta, Kentucky Humanities
Download or read book Chasing Truth written by Julie Cross and published by Entangled: Teen. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An enjoyably twisty, romantic, and thoughtful prep-school mystery." -Kirkus Reviews At Holden Prep, the rich and powerful rule the school—and they’ll do just about anything to keep their dirty little secrets hidden. When former con artist Eleanor Ames’ homecoming date dies—seemingly by his own hand—she’s positive there’s something more going on. The more questions she asks, though, the more she crosses paths with Miles Beckett. He’s sexy, mysterious, arrogant...and he’s asking all the same questions. Eleanor might not trust him—she doesn’t even like him. So why does she keep imagining what it would be like to kiss him? Fighting the infuriating attraction is almost as hard as ignoring the fact that Miles isn’t telling her the truth...and that there’s a good chance he thinks she’s the killer. The Eleanor Ames series is best enjoyed in order. Reading Order: Book #1 Chasing Truth Book #2 Hiding Lies
Download or read book If This Is Home written by Kristine Scarrow and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2017-01-28 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jayce Loewen is used to taking care of herself and her little sister while their mom works two jobs to support them. But when her mother gets cancer, Jayce decides she can’t go it alone, and sets out to find her long-absent father — but when she actually finds him, it might just have made things worse. Can she figure out who her real family is?
Download or read book Oasis written by Josiah C. Sierra and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wheelchair-bound young man, Tobias Cain, is gifted the ability to walk again by a goddess called Oasis. Alongside being able-bodied, Tobias can also release waves of energy from anywhere on his body. The goddess Oasis will fight with all her might to stop the planet from being consumed by an evil tyrant god called Bastille. The two gods have battled for millions of years. Oasis has not yet saved one world, but Earth will be different. Fighting alongside a group comprised of other gifted individuals, Tobias could be the key to possibly saving the world.
Download or read book Flirting with Disaster written by Angie Orth and published by Worthy Books. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join travel writer Angie Orth on a journey of self-discovery as she empowers readers to buck expectations, take leaps of faith, and trust that God’s plan is better than anything we think we want for our lives. Angie Orth should have had at least 2.5 kids by now—everyone else back home did. Despite a successful PR career in New York, Angie was failing at the roles she was born to play—those of submissive wife and grandchild incubator. Without a potential husband in sight or the hope of a photogenic brood to show off, she was beginning to wonder if God forgot about her. With her thirtieth birthday looming, Angie was at a crossroads. Should she hightail it home to find a man like a “good girl” or continue running the rat race in New York City and hope for the best? Orth chose Plan C: Escape! She quit her job, launched a travel blog, and booked a one-way ticket to the South Pacific while her Southern family gnashed their teeth in protest. But the timing couldn’t have been worse for a solo trip: she found herself dodging tsunamis, earthquakes, revolutions, grabby men, and incessant DMs from her worrywart relatives over a journey that spanned five continents. In the midst of her global misadventures, Orth’s hilarious, vulnerable journey of faith and wanderlust demonstrates that God’s plan is so much more creative than society’s expectations. Fasten your seatbelt for this sassy, relatable memoir about living life unscripted yet still on mission. By the time readers turn the last page of Flirting with Disaster, they’ll feel empowered, knowing God’s vision is better than anything we think we want—or are supposed to want—for our lives. And they’ll be ready to take on the world in their own way.
Download or read book Outcome written by Edward W. Robertson and published by Edward W. Robertson. This book was released on 2014-01-19 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an agent of the Department of Advance Analysis, she's one of a handful of people who knows about the spread of a new virus—one she believes will wipe out mankind. With her bosses in denial, she flies to New York to get her ex-fiance Chip to safety. But he's already been scooped up and quarantined—and so has his adopted daughter. Pursued by her own agency, Ellie will stop at nothing to break Chip out before the virus claims them all. Outcome is a novella set at the beginning of the post-apocalyptic BREAKERS series. Other books include Breakers, Melt Down, Knifepoint, Reapers, and Cut Off. Keywords: free, freebie, free science fiction, post apocalyptic, post apocalyptic fiction, sci fi, adventure
Download or read book My Squirrel Days written by Ellie Kemper and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious, refreshing, and inspiring collection of essays “teeming with energy and full of laugh-out-loud moments” (Associated Press). “A pleasure. Ellie Kemper is the kind of stable, intelligent, funny, healthy woman that usually only exists in yogurt commercials. But she’s real and she’s all ours!” —Tina Fey “Ellie is a hilarious and talented writer, although we’ll never know how much of this book the squirrel wrote.”—Mindy Kaling Meet Ellie, the best-intentioned redhead next door. You’ll laugh right alongside her as she shares tales of her childhood in St. Louis, whether directing and also starring in her family holiday pageant, washing her dad’s car with a Brillo pad, failing to become friends with a plump squirrel in her backyard, eating her feelings while watching PG-13 movies, or becoming a “sports monster” who ends up warming the bench of her Division 1 field hockey team in college. You’ll learn how she found her comedic calling in the world of improv, became a wife, mother and New Yorker, and landed the role of a bridesmaid (while simultaneously being a bridesmaid) in Bridesmaids. You’ll get to know and love the comic, upbeat, perpetually polite actress playing Erin Hannon on The Office, and the exuberant, pink-pants-wearing star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. If you’ve ever been curious about what happens behind the scenes of your favorite shows, what it really takes to be a soul cycle “warrior,” how to recover if you accidentally fall on Doris Kearns Goodwin or tell Tina Fey on meeting her for the first time that she has “great hair—really strong and thick,” this is your chance to find out. But it’s also a laugh-out-loud primer on how to keep a positive outlook in a world gone mad and how not to give up on your dreams. Ellie “dives fully into each role—as actor, comedian, writer, and also wife and new mom—with an electric dedication, by which one learns to reframe the picture, and if not exactly become a glass-half-full sort of person, at least become able to appreciate them” (Vogue.com).
